Fair Vote Canada has launched a campaign seeking volunteers to circulate petitions demanding the Liberal government implement proportional representation. They’re piggybacking their preferred option, proportional rep., on the back of…
An observation this morning from regular commenter, Toby: At the barber shop this morning I got an earful of nonsense about the Paris attacks, about Trudeau doing everything wrong, about…
I’m deeply confused by the outpouring of sentiment over the Paris terrorist attacks, especially the resounding clamour for prime minister Trudeau to reverse his decision on withdrawing Canada’s six-pack of…
The Independent has reprinted the cartoon responses of Charlie Hebdo’s Joann Sfar. They’re really inspirational. A lot of us can use a bit of this wisdom.
Take pity on the multi-millionaires whose homes line the waterfront in Vancouver’s West Point Grey neighbourhood. Those magnificent homes are generally low lying and the rising sea is closing the…
I’m beginning to fear that our society is more seriously, intractably divided than I had imagined. The Harper Decade of Darkness was spent focusing on the dark art of wedge…
It didn’t take long for the usual suspects to demand that Justin Trudeau reverse his decision to withdraw Canada’s penny packet of CF-18s from the hapless bombing campaign against ISIS.…
The prime minister has ordered a moratorium on oil tanker traffic along British Columbia’s northern coast. No tankers, no pipeline – this appears to be the end of the Northern…
It’s amazing how many voices are coming out of the woodwork demanding that Justin Trudeau do this or do that and damned smartly too. Jesus, I didn’t think the Dippers…
None of us has (or can have for that matter) a reliable vision of what awaits our society and every other in the decades ahead. We’re very nearly at the…
Remembrance Day, ah yes, the autumnal ritual in which we sleep in late, getting up just in time, maybe, to turn on the set and watch better people in their…
The Chinese just set a new record. The northeastern industrial city of Shenyang took top honours for PM 2.5 particulate matter concentrations in the city’s air. The World Health Organization…
Human civilization dates back about 11,000 years. Just 11,000 years, a blip in the history of our 5-billion year old planet. Temperatures over that interval have been remarkably stable barring…
It’s not that we’re really all that troubled by the idea of change. In fact we like it so long as it’s gradual and heading in our preferred direction. More…
Toronto Star chairman, John Honderich, is calling out PostMedia CEO, Paul Godfrey, for gagging his papers’ editors and forcing them, all 16, to endorse Stephen Harper in the last election.…
Revolution is no longer an option. At least according to Byung-Chul Han who argues that the revolutionary remedy is foreclosed by neoliberalism. Why is the neoliberal system of domination so…
As expected, the World Anti-Doping Agency has released a report concluding that performance-enhancing doping of Russian athletes is so rampant and systemic that Russia should be suspended from competition by…
Now that he’s been consigned to irrelevance, NDP leader Mulcair is denouncing the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal as the worst ever. I never put much stock in Mulcair’s views as it…
Isn’t it curious how, when it comes to trade deals, governments willingly, sometimes foolishly, even rashly, surrender some pretty important incidents of state sovereignty, but when it comes to climate…
We can’t say we weren’t warned – again and again and again. Think of it as being parked smack atop a level crossing and deciding to enjoy a leisurely picnic…
